Catholic Quotes · Page 58

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

— Karin Slaughter

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

— B. F. Skinner

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.

— Michael Keaton

“The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews.”

— Michel Templet

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

— Nan Goldin

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

— Norman Maclean

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

— Anton Chekhov

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

— Anonymous

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of…

— Anonymous

I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that…

— Roxane Gay

I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about…

— Stephen Colbert

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere…

— Teddy Pendergrass

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended.…

— Erma Bombeck

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

— Elie Wiesel

By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the…

— Susan Sarandon

I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization.…

— Hozier

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from…

— Michael Smith

Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so…

— Richard Dawkins

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its…

— Richard Dawkins

A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on…

— John Henry Newman

I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of…

— Nancy Pelosi

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love…

— Leonid Feodorov

And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction,…

— Benedict Groeschel

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

— Sheila Heti

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

— Richard Pryor

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

— Linda Ronstadt

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

— Charlotte Caffey

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

— Shane Claiborne

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

— Neve Campbell

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

— Pope Francis

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

— Josemaria Escriva

I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.”

— Javier Bardem

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

— Pope John Paul II

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

— Ben Domenech

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

— Matt Dillon

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

— Robin Wright

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton